You must have been hiding under a rock to not have noticed that the situation regarding social media has deteriorated in recent years. Musk bought Twitter and ran in into the ground. Facebook was iffy years ago already, but the getting rid of fact checkers moved things to a higher level of iffiness. I had had a nagging feeling I shouldn’t be on these platforms for years. But it’s one of those things that never makes it to the top of the to do list.
Recently i decided I should just go and make myself a Bluesky account. So I did! However, that’s only the beginning. Social media works for reasons of connections. Now I needed to find people there! And other entities! And that wasn’t working too well. Most people and entities are not (yet) on there.
My first contact was the local community chaplain Sara. I spoke with her at a community event. And the second was Dean.
I quickly found out that the entities I follow on Facebook in order to find out about interesting events, like races and archaeological events, just aren’t on Bluesky. Bummer! So I should extend my Bluesky presence; it needs the people and the activity to make it a viable alternative to the other social media. But I would struggle to leave the others. Quite many races don’t seem to have a website; only a Facebook page, and these would be the charming non-commercial ones. The ThursdayNight Hill sessions also only have a Facebook presence. So I might be in an awkward box split for a while…
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